Kia EV6

Currently on the merry go round of trying to get KIA Assist to organise a flat bed to a KIA dealer and get a replacement car.

Not looking good…

So I'm out of cover on the KIA Assist so they wont cover a truck to the garage or a courtesy car. 🙈

Insurance wont cover the transport to the garage or provide a courtesy car unless I was making a claim 🙈🙈

Local KIA garage are going to take it in, but cant guarantee that they will get a look at it before Christmas to diagnose the problem….. and they also have no courtesy cars available 🙈🙈🙈

Happy Christmas everyone……

@ForestFire thanks for that.

In fairness if its the ICCU I expect KIA to cover that under the warranty and hopefully a replacement car for the duration of the repair timeline.

The KIA Assist is only in place for 3 years which I didnt know about, but given the probable issue and the time of year etc I would have expected some form of good will gesture from them.

Thankfully we have a second car and should make things work but there you go…

@joe1303l thanks for the suggestion. I got it transported to the garage at lunch time so will have to play the waiting game now.

It's only a small percentage of cars. I think I've seen Hyundai/Kia quoting a number like 1% but I've seen estimates suggesting it might be as high as 5%. It's by no means guaranteed to happen.

We have a 221 with 60k km - no issues whatsoever (knock on wood!).

As previous posters have said, it is a known issue and always a possibility. I got mine in January 2022 and never had an issue and am trading it in for Hyundai Ioniq 6 next month which has the same ICCU. I would treat it as something that might happen but not to lose sleep over it. Similar to something like the PSA 1.2 Puretech engine issues. It may happen but is far from guaranteed, but at least if it does it’s not a catastrophic failure like a combustion engine that eats itself.

Mine was used the grand total of 6 times on a fast charger....

Just a quick update. KIA are playing a blinder here and have made a car available to me until it gets sorted, which I really appreciate.

Looks like its the ICCU unit

What are the best replacement wipers for the ev6? Tks

Anyone have recurring issues with the "Ready" light not coming on when the car starts? If I turn the car off and back on it usually sorts it but not always on the first restart.

Anyone come across this?

Thanks, I'll try that if it happens again.

Yup I ain't been able to connect to the car from my phone in about 4-5 days.

It works for me, but I had to log in again since I was signed out, even though I used the Kia App yesterday.

No idea then, it works for me just fine.

How did you reset the head unit? Is there a little reset button?